Is Islam a threat to the West?

[Platypus]

Sure, if you mean a threat to continuing the status quo obviously the rising prominence of Islam is one of the bigger ones.

There's good and bad in this, but the effect exists and causes change. That change will occur more rapidly as the years progress, and hopefully it will be positive.

(Of course, 'Islam' is ridiculously broad)

[Platypus]

Actually, there,s also radicalised Islam throughout the world. From central Asia to West Africa, Indonesia, Buenos Aires, India, Phillipines and in the West, a disproportionate amount of violent action is done by muslims. Some can and should be classified as retaliation to US belligerance but a significant amount is relately either very tenuously or not at all. There's little question that muslim fundamentalists are more prepared than most to engage in violent acts for a cause and while heavily outnumbered by moderates they are a larger percentage of the whole than those of any other major religion.

[Platypus]

I brought up race because it's an important factor in anti-muslim xenophobia. No frightened american, or for that matter western european, is going to think of white muslims, but of the 'brown hoard' or the asians, either 'invading' their country, or trying to attack it.

If that's true (and that's doubtful), wouldn't it largely be because the vast majority of islamic immigrants to the west come from the 'brown' areas as you put it?